- [Instructor] One of the core responsibilities…of an IT support technician is to make sure…that IT systems that support business processes…are always up and running.…And so in this demo, we'll follow down…that road by monitoring a Windows service periodically.…Periodically means ideally we want a recurrent schedule,…and this we can do using the monitor date/time activity.…We'll then use the get service status activity…to check to see whether or not a service…is running on a host.…We'll then use the start/stop service activity…to start something that isn't running…that should be, and if we have to start a service…that should've been running, we'll probably…want to write a log message or send some kind…of an email alert.…

In this case, we'll send an event log message…using the send event log message activity.…And as always, when planning our runbooks,…we have to consider where will the data come from?…In this case, where is the name of the computer…or computers that we want to check services,…where's that going to come from?…

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10/4/2017

System Center is the Microsoft cornerstone platform for configuration, management, and deployment. Keeping track of all the moving pieces in this environment is critical for system admins. Enter Orchestrator, a centralized enterprise automation tool. Orchestrator automates repetitive tasks such as host monitoring and disk space checks—increasing efficiency while reducing human error.

This course teaches administrators how to automate the monitoring and deployment of data center resources using Orchestrator 2016. Instructor Daniel Lachance begins with a discussion of Orchestrator components and interactions, and walks through the installation of an Orchestrator environment. Then he explores Runbook Designer, the tool for creating various automation solutions related to file management, user onboarding, and more. Follow along and learn how to create your own runbooks with this integral tool, and optimize and reduce your workload.